BREAKING: Top DOJ Official Demoted Over Contacts He Had With Dossier Firm

Top DOJ official Bruce G. Ohr was demoted this week for contacts he reportedly had with the firm responsible for the unsubstantiated dossier on President Trump, according to Fox News.

Prior to Wednesday, Ohr had been associate deputy attorney general—a title he’s now been stripped of.

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Initially senior department officials could not provide the reason for Ohr’s demotion, but Fox News has learned that evidence collected by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), chaired by Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., indicates that Ohr met during the 2016 campaign with Christopher Steele, the former British spy who authored the “dossier.”

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Additionally, House investigators have determined that Ohr met shortly after the election with Glenn Simpson, the founder of Fusion GPS – the opposition research firm that hired Steele to compile the dossier with funds supplied by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. By that point, according to published reports, the dossier had been in the hands of the FBI, which exists under the aegis of DOJ, for some five months, and the surveillance on Page had been commenced more than two months prior.

The contacts made between Ohr, Steele, and Simpson have not been publicly disclosed.

The panel has issued numerous subpoenas for documents and witnesses related to the dossier but claims DOJ and FBI have “stonewalled,” an assertion that House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., seconded in a rare public statement in October.